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Poster: | Dan L. | Date: | Apr 23, 2009 7:16pm |
Forum: | classic_tv | Subject: | Re: Pilot for the outer limits |
"This episode was actually produced by Joseph Stefano as a pilot for a possible television series to be known as The Unknown. This series would have been an anthology show which focused on gothic horror. Two slightly different versions of this episode exist. This first is this episode. The other is the pilot to The Unknown.
In the alternate version, we discover that Andre had never died to begin with: the poisonous Thanatos tree does not in fact exist, but had been created by him as a laugh. Thus he was not brought back by the 'time-tilting' machine, but had been faking his death all along. He still dies at the end the same way, but Kassia takes his gun. The character of Tone Hobart is then shot by Kassia when she mistakes him for attacking Leonora. He dies in front of his 'time-tilter' machine: it turns out he was really just a madman all along, though he still gets what he longs for in the end: a return to the past of his "death" (which, in this version, had been a coma, not death).
These changes were made to accommodate the fact that the proposed show The Unknown was not to contain any science fiction elements. ABC ended up rejecting the pilot, and an opening titles sequence designed by Wayne Fitzgerald along with an opening theme written by Dominic Frontiere for The Unknown would later be used by ABC for the science fiction series The Invaders"
Now the alternate versions/edits of episodes like this would have been a GREAT addition to the DVD Boxsets! No? ;-)
(Hint Hint for a Bluray Boxset Re-Release someday? I can dream no?)
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Poster: | cosmicola | Date: | Apr 24, 2009 6:07am |
Forum: | classic_tv | Subject: | Re: Pilot for the outer limits |
Besides, I can always come here and watch stuff (assuming IA survives the constant technological changes), since most of my favorite movies and TV shows are online already.
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Poster: | Meatpies | Date: | Apr 24, 2009 4:48pm |
Forum: | classic_tv | Subject: | Re: Pilot for the outer limits |
With all the stuff on IA, and all our DVDs, we're seriously thinking about dumping cable.
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Poster: | cosmicola | Date: | Apr 24, 2009 10:46pm |
Forum: | classic_tv | Subject: | Re: Pilot for the outer limits |